Donations to the Genocide Intervention Network's Civilian Protection Program can be made online at their website.
Three dollars can protect one woman for a year in Darfur. The Genocide Intervention Network's civilian protection program, the first of its kind in Darfur, works with Darfuri community leaders , displaced women and girls, and the African Union Mission in Sudan to protect women and girls from rape and attack as they venture to collect firewood outside of their camps.
The Genocide Intervetion Network's civilian protection program, the first of its kind in Darfur, works with Darfuri community leaders , displaced women and girls, and the African Union Mission in Sudan to protect women and girls from rape and attack as they venture to collect firewood outside of their camps.On December 5th, students around the world will ask their peers, families, and communities to join them in DarfurFast - an event that asks participants to fast from one item for the day and donate the money that we would have spent on those items to protecting civilians in Darfur. Just three dollars - less than the cost of a latte at Starbucks - is enough to provide protection for one woman for one year.
As the situation in Darfur worsens and more people are forced into internally displaced person (IDP) camps, firewood near the camps grow increasingly scarce. Every day, women and girls are forced to wander further into the desert to find firewood for cooking, exposing them to rape and attack from waiting militias.